whitestuff's advanced gimpshop tutorial

[Metaknight]

Man, do I wish my GIMP would work! I'll try it again now and then use your awesome tutorial!



Sorry, I don't want to make a new thread for this... whenever I try to download GIMP it keeps saying it can't open it because it doesn't know who created it. Do I have to save it? Or? Thanks, and sorry...

[whitestuff]

Originally Posted by johnny139

Giving this topic a well deserved BUMP, and asking a question at the same time!

Now, I have GIMP, but nooe of those other window kinda things, like the mini-layer mabob. So I don't know how to alter opacity, or change layers, or even know which layer is which. Are those in a different version I can download? Is it a PC/Mac thing? Am I just incompetent? Or do you have no idea whatsoever?

Try this...

Open the GIMP and a picture,



Choose the 'Dialogs' menu and pick any of the tabs that you need. In this pic I'm picking the layers tab.



Once you've picked a couple of these tabs they looks like this.



But it is not very useful this way so if you put your mouse cursor near the label of the tab, , you can drag the tab and drop it onto another open tab window. When you are dragging the tab correctly it looks like this.

Where you drop the tab will determine how it looks. If you drop the tab in the spot shown here with the blue bar it looks like this . If you drop it in the main part of the window, , it looks like this, , with icons you can click to change between options.

Play with the tools and add as you go and you end up with all the things you want.

I hope that helps

[johnny139]

Perfect! Thanks, now I can get back into the customs game!

Really, thanks. Fantastic tutorial.

[dim3000]

I am just about to make some customs. Thanks, this really helps a lot.

:P :P

[RedWyrmSniper]

Thank you for your enlightenment!!!!!

You are a genius!!!!!!!!
Magnificent work my friend!!!
Looks like you are truely dedicated to us HS fans and we love you for it!!
..........Well at least like you alot.

[whitestuff]

Originally Posted by RedWyrmSniper

Thank you for your enlightenment!!!!!

You are a genius!!!!!!!!
Magnificent work my friend!!!
Looks like you are truely dedicated to us HS fans and we love you for it!!
..........Well at least like you alot.

Everyone gather round, group hug time!

[MarioWarrior1]

great tutorial.

does neone know where i can get templates for the back side (basic game play) of the heroscape card?

[Fuzzie Fuzz]

OK, you know what? Your chatspeak is really pissing me off, and only post things in one spot. If Aldin hasn't already greeted you, welcome to the site.

[whitestuff]

Originally Posted by Fuzzie Fuzz

OK, you know what? Your chatspeak is really pissing me off, and only post things in one spot. If Aldin hasn't already greeted you, welcome to the site.

but Aldin said hello to me ages ago......

[HighElfCollier]

For anyone who is GIMP savvy...

Whenever I open up GIMP, it does not open up the layers window. Is there a way to get to the layers window from the GIMP toolbar?

[whitestuff]

Originally Posted by HighElfCollier

For anyone who is GIMP savvy...

Whenever I open up GIMP, it does not open up the layers window. Is there a way to get to the layers window from the GIMP toolbar?

Open the program and try pressing 'ctrl-L'. That should open it.

[HighElfCollier]

That worked.

Thanks!